Rare Birds: Conversations with Legends of Jazz and Classical Music

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Synopsis This volume offers readers a superb collection of conversations and interviews with some of the world's best jazz musicians and classical composers - including Philip Glass, Charles Lloyd, Abdullah Ibrahim, Steve Reich, Eugene Friesen, and Sathima Bea Benjamin.These candid interviews focus not only on the music but also on the artist, delving into such topics as the creative process, individual and global perspectives on the arts, the human condition, and well as what it means to be a composer and musician. "Rare Birds" will appeal to anyone with an interest in jazz music or the contemporary classical canon. From the Inside Flap Conversations with the leading edge of contemporary jazz and classical composers See all Product description